  | Winged wonders : solving the monarch migration mystery Author: Pincus, Meeg | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
Monarch butterflies swooped through and people wondered, "Where do they go?" In 1976 the world learned: after migrating, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Mexico. This was a mystery that could only be solved when people worked as a team.
| Illustrator: | Imamura, Yasmin |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 6.20 Points: .5 Quiz: 519863 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (02/01/20)
School Library Journal (03/01/20)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 03/01/2020 Gr 2–4—Pincus explains, in somewhat lyrical (but not rhyming) text, the great annual migration of millions of monarch butterflies from southern Canada through the central United States and high into Mexico's volcanic mountains. The butterflies settle in the groves of oyamel trees where the winter breeding cycle takes place. The text mentions the people who studied the monarch's migration path: Dr. Fred Urquhart, a Canadian zoologist who spent 30 years tracking them and experimenting with tagging them; Fred's wife Norah, who advertised for volunteer "citizen scientists" to help tag monarchs in their hometowns and track them; Ken, an adventurer; his wife Catalina, a central Mexican native who kept 40 notebooks of monarch facts and led her husband to an oyamel grove filled with the beautiful orange-and-black insects; and Jim, the American science teacher who caught and tagged a monarch in a Minnesota field that Fred later found among a cloud of monarchs in a Mexican oyamel grove in 1976. This tagging process is still carried on today by organizations such as Monarch Watch, Monarch Joint Venture, and Journey North, and along with planting milkweed and abstaining from using chemical sprays, it can help monarchs survive. Bright cartoon-style illustrations in oranges, greens, and black highlight realistic butterflies and countryside foliage. VERDICT This book offers solid information about monarch butterflies and good ideas for classroom projects.—Susan Scheps, formerly at Shaker Public Library, OH - Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
